Author Archives: Roger Moore

The Hitchcock films that draw me back in, time and again, are the lighter-hearted ones. As much as I relish “Strangers on a Train,””Vertigo,” “Rear Window” or “Notorious,” it’s the murderous, mysterious larks that hold up best for me. I … Continue reading →

“Lonesome” is a danged-near-adorable throwback romance that plays like a love letter to being single and mingling in Milwaukee. Producer/writer/director Tony K. Hall shot it in black and white — with cotton candy and its effects on the tongue the … Continue reading →

Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck and the boys chew on “Train Kept a Rollin’” while David Hemmings searches searches searches for his someone. Did director Michelangelo Antonioni tell that crowd to stand stock still so that Hemmings could weave amongst them? … Continue reading →

The sets, effects and production design of “The Devil Conspiracy” is damned impressive — huge and gloomy, foggy, Apocalyptic and Hellish. One would expect no less from a movie that mashes up “Rosemary’s Baby,” “The Exorcist” and “The Boys from … Continue reading →

Netflix has this teen rom-com thing down. Joey King or Ava Michele or Anjelika Washington or Camila Mendes, the leading ladies may change. But the aspirational wealth-and-bling settings don’t. The vocal fry sass, the best Hollywood dentistry money can buy … Continue reading →

Feb. 3, this lovely looking dramedy hits theaters.

If chemistry were all, then the sparks Amy Adams and Matthew Goode set off might be enough in ‘Leap Year,’ a romantic comedy in which those sparks never quite ignite. Wrapped too tight American meets louche, world-weary Irishman? Add Guinness … Continue reading →

First of all, “Virtually Heroes” wasn’t really lost. It was sort of abandoned back in 2013. Finished, but not even released that I’m aware of. It’s a “Roger Corman” film in that he produced it, and his name got Mark … Continue reading →

April 28, one of the hit books of the ’70s becomes a major and probably very cute motion picture. They got the music right.

The fight as it played out underground it the setting of this Feb. 24 thriller. Genre film, but the trailer suggests it could be good.